Local Voices

There is a solution to our economic crisis that every person can employ. It takes just minutes, and the cost is free. The results can be more than we can think, believe or imagine.

What is this miraculous solution?

Prayer.

Let's pray daily for our nation, our leaders and our citizens.

-- Susan Shields, Oswego

Support for the mother

Nadya Suleman, the woman who gave birth to octuplets and is now the mother of 14 children conceived through in-vitro fertilization, has received an onslaught of criticism for doing this. There were frozen embryos leftover from her previous pregnancies and she didn't want them destroyed. Therefore, she decided to have the embryos implanted which resulted in the recent births.

While it is understandable that not everyone would approve, shouldn't George W. Bush, Pope Benedict XVI and religious conservatives everywhere be rejoicing?

-- Jeff Robertson, Orland Hills

Finding revenue

I think I just found a way to fix either our budget deficit or totally do away with the TARP program. Barack Obama should nominate every U.S. senator and every member of the House for Cabinet positions. Inevitabily they will all have to disclose their back taxes. This combined with penalties: Problem solved.

-- Jim Bergamini, Homer Glen

Missing mail

If the post office follows through with its proposal to discontinue mail service on Tuesdays, it would mean that on weeks that have a federal holiday on Monday, we would have no delivery from Saturday to Wednesday. I would then suggest that it also discontinues the practice of paid holidays on those days for federal employees.

Everybody else has to work; why shouldn't they?

-- Marilyn Ooms, Calumet City

Bad planning

If our military planned operations the way the Obama administration has planned the economic stimulus plan, we would all be speaking with a British accent.

-- A.D. Juarez, Crete

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